Theory regarding the Author and the Sorcerer

[chloelovers]

I think the author really is(or rather was) in control of what happened to the people in the enchanted forest. I think he wrote the basic plots of the people in the enchanted forest, while the sorcerer brought the author’s stories to life, or gave the author the power to do so. This could be an explanation for the stories existing in our world. The author wrote them and then brought the stories to life(or the sorcerer brought them to life) This could also explain how Rumplestiltskin can see some things in the future. He is seeing the things the author has wrote, things that will happen. Only when the author(or sorcerer) brought the stories to life he/she didn’t know that the characters would still have control over what happened to them, the author wrote their fate, but they were still able to change that fate and as the characters began to make their own decisions the stories started to change(a possible explanation to why the stories in once upon a time are different from the ones we are familiar with outside of the show). And I think the character who has strayed the most is Rumplestiltskin. Rumple wasn’t happy with his story, so he became the dark one, changing his own story and everyone else’s stories as well. He sort of took over the author’s world. And Rumple’s actions eventually led to the creation of storybrooke. Now that the characters are in storybrooke the author now has no way to control the stories. In storybrooke everyone has complete control over their fates. Now they are starting to wonder about this book Hennry has. Who wrote it? I think they will start to discover that this person(the author) had written a version of their stories, had written Regina as a villain and all that jazz but they had the power to choose their own fates all along, explaining the page of regina and robin hood together. The author doesn’t control their fates, but rather created their world not knowing what would happen if he did.

Now regarding the Sorcerer, I think the Sorcerer helped the author create the enchanted forest and is the one who gave the book to Hennry. Maybe the author went crazy, wanting to conrol everything, but he couldn’t so the sorcerer tipped Rumplestiltskin off about the dark curse, leading to the creation of storybrooke and to everyone being free of the author’s creation. The sorcerer then planted the book, hoping that snow white would remember if she saw the stories, only she gave the book to Hennry. So the sorcerer sent August to town to help get everyone to remember. He did this by turning August back into wood. This theory is a little crazy, but I would love to hear everyone’s take on it.

[RumplesGirl]

I think the author really is(or rather was) in control of what happened to the people in the enchanted forest. I think he wrote the basic plots of the people in the enchanted forest, while the sorcerer brought the author’s stories to life, or gave the author the power to do so.

Like a god and a prophet? Interesting.

This could also explain how Rumplestiltskin can see some things in the future. He is seeing the things the author has wrote, things that will happen.

Hm. But Rumple got the future from the blind Seer in ‘Manhattan’

I think they will start to discover that this person(the author) had written a version of their stories, had written Regina as a villain and all that jazz but they had the power to choose their own fates all along, explaining the page of regina and robin hood together. The author doesn’t control their fates, but rather created their world not knowing what would happen if he did.

Interesting. I like it more than the idea that none of them are responsible for what they did in the past cause “author made me do it!”

 

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[MatthewPaul]

I’ve seen a similar idea before in a web series I follow. The show broke the 4th wall by introducing the character to the writer/creator. The writer explains that initially that character started out as just a character, but they had eventually evolved. An appropriate quote from said web series: “You literally leapt off the page and taken on a life of your own. It became less of me writing you what to do, and you telling me what to write.” I guess the best in real analogy I can make is between a parent and a child. It was the parents who brought their child into the world, and they had their own expectations on how they would grow up and live their life. Slowly but surely, the child would become more and more independent as they grew older. While the child became more independent, the parent would of course still be there for support and guidance. Don’t authors consider their characters their children? Maybe their characters don’t literally become real people, but writing these characters makes the process more organic the more they spend writing them. The character now exists in their head, and there’s that little voice whispering to them where to take them next. In turn, they’ll make writing choices for that character that they didn’t initially think of back when originally creating that character.

I actually find it fascinating for the show to explore the question “What if there really is a writer/god like figure who’s responsible for everything that happens?” It’s not like we don’t see that in real life too, where people will question if there is a higher power out there, and how much control they really have over their lives. Can you really blame Regina for her curiosity, when the book exists and all of their lives already exist as a piece of fiction in our world? Especially when Regina had come so far in Season 3, and her happy ending was THIS close to happening, only for yet another roadblock to occur. However, I feel the whole moral of Season 4B will end up being that there’s only so much the author can do, and that in the end happy endings are up to each individual’s actions. I see the author giving them a few pointers, when they do find him/her, but it will still ultimately be up to each person to work towards their own happy endings. In short, you and only you are ultimately responsible for your own destiny. To quote Albus Dumbledore, “it is our choices…that show what we truly are.”

[darkones1fan]

Matt is that web series The Nostalgia Critic. They did something similar.

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